Cat Thompson

Cat Thompson is a Tampa native and multi-media artist. She recently received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of South Florida with a concentration in sculpture and digital printmaking. Thompson has participated in a large number of shows including the Tampa Museum of Art’s, Art of Recycling (awarded 1st place in the college division), All Florida Juried Sculpture Show (awarded best of show), Art in Service of Politics at Gallery 145, Art for Life, sHOTEL(L), and He said She said. Her work is included the collections of the University of South Florida Graphic Studio, the Southern Graphics Council and private collections throughout the world. As the art director and owner of Gallery on Florida, Thompson also helped organize the multi-gallery Avant Hop. Her current work as an artist focuses on what she calls "the underbelly of memory and nostalgia" mixed with Baudrillardian concepts of conscious and unconscious consumption.

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Arts Center Association, Inc

As a community-based visual arts organization that has been a part of the St. Petersburg cultural landscape since 1917, the Morean Arts Center connects people with art through daily programming, offered 363 days each year.